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Caregivers, Mental Health, and Mobilizing Church Support: An Interview with Jess Ronne Part 2

 Caregivers, Mental Health, and Mobilizing Church Support: An Interview with Jess Ronne Part 2

Unseen: How We’re Failing Parent Caregivers and Why It Matters made its global online premiere May 20. This is part 2 of the in-depth questions we posed to Jess Ronne to help our readers better understand the issues raised in the documentary and how churches can be supportive of caregiving families. Read part 1 here.

Caregivers, Mental Health, and Mobilizing Church Support: An Interview with Jess Ronne Part 1

 Caregivers, Mental Health, and Mobilizing Church Support: An Interview with Jess Ronne Part 1

Unseen: How We’re Failing Parent Caregivers and Why It Matters made its global online premiere May 20. We caught up with Jess Ronne to ask some in-depth questions to help our readers better understand the issues raised in the documentary and how churches can be supportive of caregiving families.

Part 3: How Churches Can Accommodate Adopted Children and Teens with Disabilities

Part 3: How Churches Can Accommodate Adopted Children and Teens with Disabilities

In the final part of this 3-part series, Sandra Peoples shares age group-specific strategies for churches to welcome, include, and create a place of belonging for adoptive children and teens with disabilities and traumatic backgrounds.

Churches That Encourage Adoption Should Be Trauma Informed and Disability Accommodating

Churches That Encourage Adoption Should Be Trauma Informed and Disability Accommodating

Churches rightly encourage adoption and support families going through the adoption process, but are they prepared when the child or teen comes home and is diagnosed with special needs or trauma-related issues? Sandra Peoples shares three-part series on a theology of disability that can serve as a motivation for churches to meet the needs of these families.

Don't Be Afraid To Start Something New: How Our Church Started A Special Needs Ministry

Don't Be Afraid To Start Something New: How Our Church Started A Special Needs Ministry

When our church, The Roads Church, located in Southern Illinois, decided to start a special needs ministry a few years ago, we were embarking into unfamiliar territory. Here’s the process we followed that may work for your church, too.

How the Annual Budgeting Process Can Grow Your Disability Inclusion Ministry

How the Annual Budgeting Process Can Grow Your Disability Inclusion Ministry

Our annual budgets reflect what we value, whether a family or ministry. Our values are also reflected in our budgeting methodology. Here are some approaches that can help your church build community and foster disability inclusion.

Why Ukraine? Part 3 of Linda's Story of How God Uniquely Equipped Her for His Purposes in Ukraine

Why Ukraine? Part 3 of Linda's Story of How God Uniquely Equipped Her for His Purposes in Ukraine

Guest blogger Linda Bunk lives with both high functioning autism and bipolar disorder. This is the last of three posts showing how God has uniquely equipped Linda to minister effectively in Ukraine.

The Importance of Touch

The Importance of Touch

My husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s dementia before COVID. He is now in a nursing home where he is now being looked after with great care and kindness. In the first few months of lockdown, I could not touch him. It made me think about the importance of touch for most people.

Against All Odds - How God is Using Bipolar Disorder and Asperger’s Syndrome to Spread the Gospel - Part 2

Against All Odds - How God is Using Bipolar Disorder and Asperger’s Syndrome to Spread the Gospel - Part 2

By the numbers, Linda shouldn’t be here. Everything seemed to be stacked against her by worldly standards, and still seems that way. How could bullying, struggles with education, and psychiatric hospitalizations work for His plan? In part 2 of this series from Linda Bunk, see exactly how God is powerfully using all of these struggles to minister to people in Ukraine.